The mountainous region is 70% of the national area in China and with rich natural resource. The harness and development of mountainous area occupies an important position of strategy in the national economy construction

which should be taken overall consideration with other factors in the stressed developing area and the developed coastal region to bring each of the superiorities into effects

to aid and promote each other and to develop in coordination. The grievous soil and water loss of mountainous area is the root of poverty and the major obstruction to development. The soil and water conservation is to prevent soil and water loss

to protect and utilize the resource of soil and water rationally

and to improve the ecological environment

to reduce the natural disasters

to develop multiple commodity economy to overcome poverty and get rich

being regarded as the fundamental assurance of the basic construction such as communication

mining

etc.

and as the base to develop mountainous region. The general policy for the harness and development of the mountainous region is taking prevention as principal work

combining harness with management

overall planning

harnessing comprehensively

to develop maiuly multiple commodity econmy to overcomep overty and get rich rapidly

without relaxing the grain production. The sense and function should be translated to the track that takes prevention as main work

that the new soil and water loss is controlled through the reinforcing of supervision and legal system. Meanwhile

the policy

science and input are relied

especially various levels of soil and water conservation systems of organizations are to be established and improved to strengthen soil and water conservation and the development of mountainous region to make greater contributions to the construction of socialist modernization.